The Falcon Virgo exercise, said the command, is a series of training flights in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, FBI, Customs and Border Protection, Civil Air Patrol, the 601st Air and Space Operations Center, and the Continental U.S. NORAD Region’s Western Air Defense Sector. The agencies are part of America’s team for defense of the air space around the nation, including events like the Super Bowl. (Source)

NORAD's presence will be among a bevy of enhanced security measures that will put stadium-goers through unprecedented screening and surveillance, as well as the general traveling public caught in its web.

The official NFL Super Bowl website alerts attendees:

Super Bowl Screening Procedures For Spectators

Security screening at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome will be significantly heightened for the Super Bowl. Many items usually permitted in NFL events will not be allowed into the Super Bowl. The National Football League and the Police Department strongly recommend that spectators minimize the number and size of all items carried into the Dome.

All items carried by spectators will be carefully inspected and potentially not allowed into the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Spectators are urged to bring nothing larger than a very small purse or bag. The NFL, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and the New Orleans Police Department will not hold prohibited or excluded items for spectators. (Source)

Among the normally prohibited items such as fireworks, camcorders, lasers, knives and other weapons, baby strollers and umbrellas will not be permitted. Highlighting the increased screening process, the NFL states that:

SECURITY SCREENING ON GAME DAY BEGINS AT 1:00 PM PLEASE COME EARLY TO AVOID DELAYS AND SPEED THE ENTRANCE OF ALL SPECTATORS.

While F-15's and customs and border protection agents fly overhead, this Super Bowl is sure to have the latest security gadgets on hand inside the venue as well as the airport and the surrounding area, much as they did for the previous event including smartphone-wielding undercover police sending livestream data to local headquarters, X-ray trucks, and radioactive threat detection, amid the low-tech gropedowns.

This year nearly 70 agencies will combine forces to heighten security with snipers, HAZMAT teams, and an array of land, sea, and air protection according to a CBS report. The video below, featuring Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, goes behind the scenes with the FBI to show some of the integrated systems that will be on display for this Super Bowl.

The TSA will once again be inside the venue, and their site states that they will double their presence inside the airport and out on the streets with VIPR teams covering mass transportation:

TSA will be fully staffed and anticipates efficient and safe screening operations at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) checkpoints this weekend. Additional security officers are also being brought to the airport to support the screening of the 50,000 passengers expected over the busy weekend . . .

Super Bowl fans may encounter TSA Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams on local transportation venues, including commercial and general aviation facilities and mass transit. Teams augment other federal, state, and local transportation and law enforcement to reduce potential terrorist risks to the traveling public.

TSA assets will also work with law enforcement at Mercedes-Benz Superdome during the high-profile game.

Fans are encouraged to report potentially dangerous situations to law enforcement or someone in authority. The Department of Homeland Security’s “If You See Something, Say Something™” campaign reminds the American public that security is a shared responsibility.

"If You See Something, Say Something™" used with permission of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Every year since 9/11, we have seen a justification to employ the very same agencies that failed (or supported) that day including the unprecedented stand down of NORAD. Taxpayer dollars continue to pour in for increased military-grade security around entertainment venues and sports. Until people get fed up en masse and boycott these events, we will continue to be looted and groped based entirely on the War on Terror hoax, giving implicit approval for these agencies to expand their activities to any area of America they wish.

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Spot on! Unless we say no with our wallets then we really can't put a dent in their plans. However, the second we throw them out, they'll probably stage a false flag to justify their return. But if we know what they are capable of then we won't be duped with another 9/11.

Constant surveillance...this meme is flowering with full force. Today it's games, tomorrow it's street corners. Notice the TSA is expanding its roll, just as surmised by many. LA schools are reported to be deploying 600 officers to be on staff at all schools. This inculcates our youth to a frame of mind that the law is everywhere, all the time...this is VERY OMINOUS.

The Superbowl may be an opportunity for the powers-that-be to stage a lock-down for some reason, maybe for many hours or even overnight. It is a different set-up to Katrina and not following a disaster but a public event. It would be a good 'live' exercise, so even though there is no evidence of such a plan it may be worth bearing in mind. You might be there for a while!

Tis the world we live in, and like it or not we do not have a say in how it will be run in future.We surrendered any and all rright to even grouse about how things are and security was what people asked for and their leaders gave it to them.If your afraid stay home, If you like waiting and being bored out of your mind, do like the spectators do at a race! Get drunk while waitng for a crash or any darn thing at all to break the boredom.Enjoy the commercials and pretty pigs dancing while men fight the battle of the fattest; And who knows maybe you might get to see a major catastropheThose in power will do whatever they want to do and all we can do or be is as spectators.We react as they trained us to react and we are an easily trained breed.

EVERY terrorist attack of note 911, 7/7 and Sandy Hook!! has been accompanied by "excercises" depicting the exact same scanario in the exact same timeframe...this article would suggest ot me that there WILL BE a false flag attack at the superbowl...jus sayn

They already have a pandemic going on in New Orleans. I wonder if it will spread around the world with the travelers, weather etc. That wouldn't be good! I thought the government would relocate it to protect people. How naive I am, huh?

"The same NORAD that was told to stand down on 9/11. Oh my, thank god they'll be there to protect the show."

Technically, it was Cheney who gave the order to stand down that day. They were just following orders. So really, it was Cheney who killed all those people on 911. I'll never understand how that ghoul sleeps at night.

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